I have always considered myself as one able to handle lots of things.I do not consider myself to be "pampered." As we have lived in an RV for the past - almost 3 weeks, I have learned a lot about myself. I still do not believe myself to be "pampered," but we really ALL are here in the states. I also know, that it is OK to not be able to live in certain circumstances.
I will say that when that door opened and we didn't have a lot of other choices, we just thought it was the right thing to do; however, looking back on it, we are not so sure. I CAN live in small places, no problem. This was more than that. First of all, we didn't always have access to water. So, we had to go a few days at a time without a shower!! Sometimes the electricity would just go off in the middle of the night, and then the propane went out and the guy didn't get any more. The 2 biggest things were the RATS and the fact that in the really cold nights (mornings) we had to go use the port-a- potty. LOL
It was far away from work, from church and everything else. Still, I thought it would "save" us money. After these few weeks there, we have learned differently. It was also hard on us as a couple because we were both stressed over different things and not dealing with them as well as we could have. We did learn through all this and have come out stronger for sure.
Yesterday, Thanksgiving day, started out kind of hard for me because I was focusing on the "bad" and not what I have to be thankful for. I DO know that most of the world does not have it even as nice as the RV. I get it. I know we are NOT used to that though. I did; however, get my focus right and we enjoyed a quiet day eating baked potatoes and watching movies. ( we could use our toaster oven, and our car was messed up so we couldn't go anywhere)
Today, I had prayed that the Lord would give SOME kind of encouragement, some little blessing..... the first table I had this morning was all 3 of our pastors at church! Lawrence had already been texting Todd, and they told me that they were going to help get the car going, get us moved back into the hotel and make sure I could get home! Wow! I told them how they were the answer to what I had just prayed! They did all they said, and so we are back in the hotel, the car is fixed and we are clean! God is so good to us! I am thankful most of all for the presence of God in my life, and his Peace!
We do miss our kids. We know that this time of year is going to be "harder" than the other times. We also KNOW that it will not always be like this. We know we are in His hands, and so are our kids.
Thank you for your prayers. I am so glad to be back online and be able to keep in touch and Skype our kids!!
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